Marilyn Monroe

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

“try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.”

“Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??”

“just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so k...”

“What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course”

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”

“They will only care when you're gone.”

“It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.”

“If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!”

“I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.”

“There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a...”

“Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have n...”

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.”

“An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?”

“I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.”

“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”

“First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.”